Posted on 04/30/2024 12:34:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dozens of protesters began occupying the building at 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, pledging to remain until the University meets their demands.
Student protesters occupying Hamilton Hall will face expulsion, University spokesperson Ben Chang wrote in a Tuesday press release.
“Protesters have chosen to escalate to an untenable situation – vandalizing property, breaking doors and windows, and blockading entrances – and we are following through with the consequences we outlined yesterday,” Chang wrote.
Dozens of protesters have occupied Hamilton Hall—which they renamed “Hind’s Hall,” in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian child killed by the Israeli military—since 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Upon entry, protesters sealed the building within five minutes, barricading entrances with wooden tables, chairs, and zip ties.
“We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,” Chang wrote. “Our top priority is restoring safety and order on our campus.”
Chang also stated that students who remain in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” will face interim suspensions. Columbia began suspending students involved in the encampment on Monday, according to a University spokesperson. Suspended students do not have access to any University properties, including academic buildings and residence halls, and may not complete the semester nor graduate.
“As we said yesterday, disruptions on campus have created a threatening environment for many of our Jewish students and faculty and a noisy distraction that interferes with teaching, learning, and preparing for final exams, and contributes to a hostile environment in violation of Title VI,” Chang wrote.
The disciplinary action comes against the backdrop of the University’s ongoing Commencement preparations, as staff continues to set up bleachers on Low Plaza and tents on the lawns across south campus.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest identified the protesters occupying Hamilton Hall as an “autonomous group” in a Tuesday 2:07 a.m. press release posted on X.
In a Monday substack post, CUAD reaffirmed their demands for Columbia: divestment from companies with ties to Israel, financial transparency on direct and indirect holdings, and amnesty for all disciplined pro-Palestinian students.
“Admitted students day is over—commencement is on its way,” CUAD wrote in the post. “Let’s see how much of this campus we can reclaim by then!”
University News Editor Sarah Huddleston can be contacted at sarah.huddleston@columbiaspectator.com. Follow Spectator on X @ColumbiaSpec.
Disgusting Muslims , and all their trappings and belief sets, have infested America , and are now trying to bring it down , by aligning with our mortal enemies.
We should 86 every last one.
That’s the one! Thanks.
How many of these filth are actual Columbia students?
How many of them are rent-a-mob hired by the usual suspects?
Talk is cheap. The school will wimp out.
I would like to see this “protest” last a year
I want to see the marxist administrators twist in the wind, and their red guard spawn embarrass make asses of themselves for all of America to see
Could be charged with trespassing and vandalism.
Not that they will actually be expelled, just face expulsion.
Could be paid by leftist NGOs funded by the Biden regime.
Who will charge them? You? Me?
I think they made their move too early. The numbers are not there (outside of their strongholds in Dearborn and Minneapolis). It'll backfire on them.
LOL...that is PERFECT.
They're woke. It was easy to manipulate the students at Columbia.
Those dummies didn’t understand that you can call white people the most disparaging, hateful, threatening things that you want. You can protest and break things and destroy property in the process.
You just need to make sure you aren’t saying anything bad about Jewish people. The powers that be will put a stop to that real quick.
“will face expulsion”
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Why the mealy mouth passive voice? Will be expelled is much more understandable.
Some “Death to America” group of Congress Democrats - named, “the Squad” . . . also should face expulsion.
they broke windows?
well then they can be shot like Ashli Babbit!
I suspect many of the people in the building are not university students, but rather professional protesters/organizers. Either way, if they were serious, Columbia would have requested/planned a large mobilization of NYPD riot police to retake the building and arrest everyone inside and charge them with at minimum trespassing, breaking and entering, disorderly, conduct, vandalism, destruction of private property, etc.
If they write up a fake lease and stay more than 30 days, no getting them out.
I LIKE that!
They will have to face free legal representation to get the school to back down and get a payout
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